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How long does it take to read The Best Laid Plans?

Sidney Sheldon

The Best Laid Plans by Sidney Sheldon takes about 6 hours 45 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

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About 6 hours 45 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1997. 368 pages, about 101,200 words.

14 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 11 hours 15 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 6 hours 45 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 13 minutes

The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Oliver Russell, a Southern governor, has a plan to win the White House. Leslie Stewart has a plan to stop him. Neither scheme comes off the way it was planned.

Subjects: Newspaper publishing, Presidents, Political fiction, Fiction, Man-woman relationships, Presidentes

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